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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Fish Sodhi (Fish in Coconut Milk Gravy)

A light Indian soup/gravy, sodhi is obviously enhanced with coconut milk, it's essential-core ingredient. A simple sodhi is just plain simple, still, feel free by adding veggies for a complete wholesome sodhi (Sodhi - Coconut Milk Gravy). The Prawn and Spinach Sodhi and Egg Sodhi are the other side of sodhi. Same side, don't get confused, just that, okay, basically I've combined, maybe one or two different ingredients for another type. Today, I'm featuring this fish sodhi. A modified and tweeted version, one which was shared by a facebook friend. She however prefer to remain anonymous, thus, I must respect her decision. To make this fish sodhi, marinated fish is fried and keep aside. Then we make the coconut milk gravy - elevated with fresh turmeric instead of turmeric powder, spring onion instead of curry leaves and some ginger for freshness, fish is then tipped and combined in.
Ingredients

For the fish

2 medium size tenggiri/Indian mackerel - cut into bite sizes

1 tsp cornflour

1 tsp riceflour

1/2 tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp plain curry powder

Salt to taste

Oil for frying
**Except for oil, marinate fish the rest of the ingredients for at least one hour.

For the coconut milk gravy

1 cup thick coconut milk

1 tomato - slice

1 medium size red onion - slice

1 red chilli - slice

1/2 inch ginger - slice

1 tsp fenugreek/halba seeds

1 inch fresh turmeric/kunyit - remove the skin and crush

Lime juice - per taste

2 stalks spring onion - slice

Salt to taste

Method
Heat oil and when heated, fry fish in batches.
Remove and keep aside.
Simmer 2 cups of water with turmeric in a pot.

When heated through, scoop out the turmeric which is not needed anymore.
Then add tomato, onion, ginger, chilli and fenugreek seeds.

Simmer, pour in coconut milk, add fried fish and salt.

Gently stir and just after 2-3 minutes, remove from heat.

Combine in spring onion and lime juice.

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